Winter Olympics : Let the Games Begin!

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For anything Winter Olympic related.

Loved watching bits and bobs this weekend.

Agree its so annoying that iplsyer headlines give spoilers!

Loved the pair slalom snowboarding - no idea why that's being axed?

Loved skiathlon too - their thighs must burn... and big air, I cam hardly watch it looks so scary.

Overall, the speeds are so similar though, and so affected by position/ Sun warming the snow, someone falling ahead of you creating delays/ ruts etc. Must be very hard to miss out on medals by 10th second when factoring all that in.

And for films, my offering is Animalympics. It's summer and winter, but Kurt Woofner skiing gets quite a bit of airtime, and the figure skaters always make me chuckle 😃

Unlucky Kirsty Muir, 4th place.

It was so close in the end, for bronze. 4th place is always brutal.

Such a shame for her.

All eyes on the Curling and Women’s Big Air this evening.

I feel strangely worried about the curling 😆 I just really want them to win.

I'm so looking forward to the big air!

The curling is nerve wracking already and it's only half way through!

Who put it on at 17.05? I’m not home yet.

It's very rude of them, isn't it.

DH had it on when I got home!

I just watched the 1000m women speed skating. wow!

Gold and silver for Team NL, Leerdam and Kok

I’m going to have to watch in the rain at the bus stop.

I really hope we’re not in for a day of 4th places 😫😤

I'm here for Mia Brookes from 6.30. She's a star ⭐

Snowboarding.

What a shot! If there’s a time to pull that out of the bag…

Did you mean to speak so soon?

I'm in awe of Jen Dodds. New female sports heroine (despite it going a bit wrong atm 😔). How fit do you have to be to do curling - all that crouching and squatting.

It's not over til it's over 🤞

The ice sculptures are beautiful 😍

perhaps should have stayed silent. Unfortunate power play.

The Swedes are listening to each other.

Good!

Ugh. I think the tone of this match was set in the 2nd/3rd end, sadly.

Such a shame.

Steve cram being ridiculously optimistic here